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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:59:21 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: "richw@netcomuk.co.uk" <richw@netcomuk.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Clock / Timebase / Bus Frequencies Help
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:52:12AM -0400, richw@netcomuk.co.uk wrote:
> We've got an 8347 based board very similar to the A&M asp8347. Core clock
> is 400MHz. Bus clock is 266666666Hz.
> According to the data sheet for the 8347, the decrementer clock runs at a
> quarter of the rate of the bus clock. I have two questions:
> In arch/powerpc/boot/redboot-83xx.c, the timebase clock is passed to
> dt_fixup_cpu_clocks() as bi_busfreq / 16. If I leave it like this, my
> system clock runs approximately 4 times too fast. 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of an explanation for the div by 16
> rather than 4?

It's a bug, which I pointed out here:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-June/058704.html

> If I change the call to dt_fixup_cpu_clocks so that bi_busfreq/4 is passed
> in, then the clock runs more accurately. However, its still not correct.
> This gives a decrementer frequency of 66666666Hz, but if I hard code the
> value to 66000000Hz, the clock runs accurately.
> Can anyone shed any light on why the value passed in by the boot loader
> (redboot) seems to be inaccurate.

Redboot probably has the wrong crystal frequency hardcoded.

-Scott